As the global population continues to grow, innovative solutions are needed to ensure food security. With limited land and ...

fill an approximately 25-million-year gap in knowledge by reconciling the molecular clock—or pace of evolution—with the fossil spore record—the physical evidence of early plant life gathered by ...

One of the most important milestones in the evolution of life began some 400 million years ... the world was changing dramatically: complex plant ecosystems formed on land, the first woody plants ...

New research shows that a fossilized plant from the Green River Formation is even stranger than scientists originally thought ...

multicellular life as we know it, giving rise to the mitochondria and chloroplasts that power cells in plants, animals and fungi. Understanding how this process begins could unlock answers about the ...

Through genome analysis, the scientists uncovered surprising insights into yerba mate’s evolutionary history – particularly ...

What do cells, genes, mutations, transposons, RNA silencing, and DNA recombination have in common? All were discovered first in plants. It sounds grandiose, but it’s true, and plant biologists delight ...

However, the evolution of life-history strategies in early land plants remains poorly understood. As a predominant and typical component of Early Devonian floras, Zosterophyllopsida has a long ...